Matrix-making and type-setting machine



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MATRIX MAKING AND TYPE SETTING MACHINE. 'No. 551,469. Patented Dec. 17, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EE-icE.

HOMER LEE AND EDMOND LEBRUN, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE ELECTRIC TYPOGRAPHIO COMPANY, OF IVEST VIRGINIA.

MATRIX-MAKING AND TYPE-SETTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 551 ,469, dated December 17, 1895.

Original application filed October 31, 1888, Serial No. 289,676. Divided and this application filed October 11, 1890. Serial No. 367,806. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: tional view of the opposite side of the ma- Be it known that we, HOMER LEE, a citizen chine, showing the means for operating the of the United States, and EDMOND LEBRUN, a aligning-block. Figs. 3 and at are details subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residshowing the aligning and abutment blocks in ing in the city, county, and State of New their different positions. Fig. 5 is a section York, have invented certain new and useful on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Improvements in Matrix-Making and Type- Referring now to the drawings, A A are Setting Machines, fully described and reprethe side plates of the machine. sented in the following specification and the B is the rest-bar in the composing-space r0 accompanying drawings, forming a part of upon which the type are assembled.

the same. 0 is the platen or impression-table having This invention relates to that class of maa limited movement toward and from the line chines in which a line of type, either male or of assembled type.

female, is composed and then used, if male, D is the abutment-block moved against the I 5 either to print a line of matter or as a die top of the assembledtypeto lock them against from which to make a matrix, or, if female, the rest-bar for the impression, and E is the as a matrix from which. to cast a printing-bar. thrust-plate by which the j ustifiers are moved Among the machines of this class in co1nforward for justification of the line. mon use are matrix-making machines, type- The type 1 are carried by type-bars 2 ar- 20 writing machines, type setting and distributranged radially to the rest-bar, each of the ing machines, and printing-bar-casting matype being provided with a front shoulder 3, chines. Our invention is applicable to all which rests upon the top of the rest-bar when of these and to all other machines in which the type are in position in the line being type are thus composed and locked in position formed, and a rear shoulder 4 engaging the 2 5 for any purpose. There are several Varieties aligning-block, as hereinafter described. A of this class of machines, to all of which our series of justifiers and j ustifier-bars 5 are also invention is applicable; but the mechanism arranged to be brought into position in the embodying the same has been designed parline of type upon the restbar, the justifiersbeticularly for use in a machine of that variety ing afterward forced forward by the thrust- 30 in which the type are fixed upon bars adapted plate E for j ustification of the line. The type to slide longitudinally in order to bring'the may be advanced to the composing-space by type to the composing-space, and the invenanysuitable means. I11 the machine shown, tion will be illustrated and described in conthe type-bars are arranged approximately vernection with such a machine, for a full deticallyand are mountedto slide freely in trans 3 5 scription of which reference may be had to verse frames supported in the side frames A, our Patent No. 447,134. being normally held in their upper position The object of our invention is to provide bythe friction of spring-pressed detents 6,and improved means for aligning and locking the released by trips 7 operated by keys, as usual type in position after they are assembled; and in this variety of machines,the type-bars mov- 40 to this end the invention consists in various ing downward into the composing-space by constructions and combinations of parts, all their own weight when released. of which will be particularly described in the For the purpose of aligning and locking the following specification, and pointed out in the line of assembled type in position for the imclaims. pression, we have provided the following 45 In the accompanying drawings, forming a means: An aligning-block F is mounted upon 5 part of this specification, Figure 1 is a secarms 8 pivotally connected to one or more tional side elevation of a machine of the parcrank-arms 9 carried by a rock-shaft 10, this ticular variety referred to, showing such parts shaft 10 being rocked by means of a crankas are necessary for understanding the presarm 11 operated through a connecting-rod 12 5o ent invention. Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic sec by a cam 13 carried by the main operatingshaft 14 of the machine, the lower end of the connecting-rod 12 being weighted at 15 to re turn the aligning-block to position. The aligning-block F moves forward upon guides 16 secured to the frame at each side of the machine, by which it is guided positively into position, so that when brought against the side of the type it lies upon the upper ends of the guides and presses against the rear side of the type below the shoulder at. The abutment-blockD may be operated in any suitable manner, a simple and satisfactory construction being shown, in which a link 17 connects one of the crank-arms 9 to a crank-arm 18 on a rock-shaft 19, which operates the abutment-block through a crank 20 and link 21.

The aligning-block is shown as placed at the rear of the type so as to engage the rear aligning-edge of the type, and this construction is preferred and especially adapted for the machine to which our invention is shown as applied. In some machines, however, it may be found desirable to mount the aligningblock in position to engage the front aligningedges of the type and clamp them against a rest-bar at the rear.

The operation is as follows: After the type are assembled in line upon the rest-bar and justified, the aligning-block F is forced up against the rear sides of the type below the shoulder 4, the aligning-block resting upon the upper ends of the guides and the type being pressed forward against the rear side of the rest-bar, with their shoulders resting upon the top of the aligning-block and restbar. The abutment-block D is then operated by the further movement of the main shaft and forced downward against the top of the type, thus pressing the type downward with their shoulders against the upper side of the aligning-block and the rest-bar, and locking the type firmly in their aligned position. The type are thus held during the impression operation, and then released by the withdrawal of the aligning and abutment blocks on the further rotation of the shaft. It will be seen that by our construction the type are positively locked on four sides, so as to prevent tilting or other movement in any direction.

lVhile we have shown the preferred form of aligning and abutment blocks and means for operating the same, it will be understood that our invention is not to be limited to the exact form of these blocks or operating mechanism therefor, as it is evident that both may be varied without departing from our invention.

This application forms a division of our application, Serial No. 289,676, filed October 31, 1888.

By the expression widthwise of the type used in certain of the claims we mean a direction transverse to the line of impression and widthwise of the body of the type, so as to bring the faces of the type into position to make a straight impression-line, as dis tinguished from a movement longitudinally of the body of the type tending to bring the faces of the type onto the same plane to se cure uniformity of impression.

lVhat we claim is- 1. The combination of type, means for assembling the type in line, an aligning block mounted to move widthwise of the type, a rock shaft having one or more arms on which the aligning block is pivotally mounted, guides for the aligning block, and means for actuating said rock shaft to advance the aligning block against the aligning edges of the type and clamp them against a part of the machine, substantially as described.

2. The combination of type, means for assembling the type in line, an aligning block mounted to move widthwise of the type, a rock shaft having one or more arms on which the aligning block is pivotally mounted, and means for actuating said rock shaft to advance the aligning block against the aligning edges of the type and clamp them against a part of the machine, substantially as described.

3. The combination of type, a rest bar, means for assembling the type in line upon the rest bar, an aligning block, an abutment block adapted to press the type against the rest bar, and means for causing said aligning and abutment blocks to advance in different directions upon the assembled type and respectively align and lock them against the rest bar, substantially as described.

4. The combination of type, a rest bar, means for assembling the type upon the rest bar, an aligning block, an abutment block adapted to lock the type against the aligning block and rest bar, a power shaft, and connections between the aligning and abutment blocks and power shaft for causing said blocks to advance in difierent directions upon the assembled type and respectively align and lock them during a portion of the revolution of the power shaft, substantially as described.

5. The combination with the type having shoulders 3, 4, of rest bar 13 and aligning block F between which the type are aligned and on which the shoulders 3, a, rest, and the abutment block D locking the type against the aligning block and rest bar, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

HOMER LEE. EDMOND LEBRUN.

\Vitnesses J. J. KENNEDY, O. J. SAWYER, E. S. SPIKE. 

